Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou weaves the lives of a small Louisiana community with the cultural and social effects of the Great War through the Great Depression. Set against the vivid backdrops of Quebec, Atlantic City and northern Louisiana, Blue Bayou examines the conflicts between family and self, future and past, duties and desires.

The author's debut novel is a twentieth-century retelling of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. It is told through the eyes of four characters - Rene Lefebvre, an ex-prison warden, ...